"In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to li..." — David Farr

We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.

The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.